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Jun 19, 2026

Nobel Prize-winning AI researcher John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

John Jumper, who won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on AlphaFold, announced he is departing Google DeepMind after nearly nine years to join rival AI lab Anthropic. His departure follows recent exits of other prominent Google AI researchers including Noam Shazeer and David Silver.

Jun 19, 20269 sources

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Jun 18, 2026

Noam Shazeer, Co-Lead of Google Gemini, Joins OpenAI

Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced he is leaving to join OpenAI. Shazeer previously spent 20 years at Google before co-founding Character.AI in 2021, which Google acquired in 2024 for $2.7 billion.

Jun 18, 20262 sources

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